Disclosure Ref: 14

Details of offenders receiving £1 million confiscation orders

Freedom of Information Act 2000 Request

Request

Please provide me with the following information relating to offenders sentenced at a Crown Court in London who were later given a confiscation order of £1 million or more:

01. The name and date of birth (or age) of the offender
02. The court at which they were sentenced and the date of conviction.
03. The principal offence for which they were sentenced.
04. The date the confiscation order was made and the court at which it was made.
05. The value of the confiscation order (if amended later, please give this figure)
06. The default sentence set by the court.
07. The “time to pay deadline” date at which payment was due.
08. The sum paid by the offender so far
09. The current value of any interest charges.
10. The outstanding sum still owed by the offender
11. If known, whether the default sentence has been activated.
12. If known, whether the offender is in prison or, if not, whether released/absconded/deported etc

Response

In response to your request, please find attached a table showing the information you have requested; the data is accurate as at 16 July 2018. Please bear in mind the caveats documented on the attached when reviewing this data set.

The following should also be noted:

The CPS does not record the date of conviction in a centrally reportable field. The multi-agency database JARD does have a field but is it not mandatory and the data is not complete. Therefore this has required individual manual searches of case records and documentation to try and establish the missing dates. The date is included if it was recorded or readily found in a manual case documentation search and not all dates have been identified. With the inclusion of all orders, there are some old orders obtained by Revenues Customs Prosecution Office (RCPO) prior to merger. These case details are not digital and/or not on current accessible database.

CPS Proceeds of Crime do not record consistently whether the Default sentence has been activated. This element of your request can be referred to National Offender Management Service (NOMs) (or current Prisoner management service) for prisoner sentence status.

Information Management Unit 020 3357 0899 IMU@cps.gov.uk